Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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BOOKs | National Law School | MPP Section | 330 BOW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34906 |
Summary:
Why do policies and business practices that ignore the moral and generous side of human nature often fail? Should the idea of economic man determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding 'no'. Policies that follow from this paradigm, he shows, may crowd out ethical and generous motives and thus backfire. But incentives per se are not really the culprit. Bowles shows that crowding out occurs when the message conveyed by fines and rewards is that self-interest is expected, that the employer thinks the workforce is lazy or that the citizen cannot otherwise be trusted to contribute to the public good
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